May 2009
2 posts
Final Cyber Body: Virgin/Whore Dualism
Virgin/Whore or Good Girl/Bad Girl:
First of all let me explain what this whole dualism term is, a dualism is the view that the world consists of or is explicable as two fundamental entities, such as Virgin/Whore or Good Girl/Bad Girl. The broader dualism as it is understood more generally is that good girls do not talk about sex and bad girls do talk about sex. Women are put in one of the two...
Week 15
In “Talking Back,” Hooks reveals her childhood experience of having a “voice.” In class we discussed how Hooks was prohibited in some ways to claim her voice. For example, when her sister found her journal she laughed at her. Also, she was not allowed to speak unless spoken to. In the article Hooks states that if she had been a boy then maybe she would be punished...